Poor Richard
dear kanga
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Sabbatical • Departure • Arrival • Elgin Crescent • A Shot of the British Museum • At the Victoria and Albert • The Book of Kells • At Kew • Through Pisa • Return to Iffley • Mordros
Source: Poor Richard: Poems. Wellington: Port Nicholson Press, 1982
Electronic source: Poor Richard: a TEI-conformant transcription
All poems © W. H. Oliver
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not quite respectable rabbit
has too many friends and relations
are strained with the neighbours
always had doubts about maoris
picking over the junk at the tip
of the iceberg that's what
they all said at the time
he shifted into a really
nice kind of street well was
a man expected to watch
his investment shrink away
to nothing came of it though
they all expected the worst
was those snotty kids at the school
p t a couldn't manage without him
running the gala he makes
a good deal more money than most
of the time kanga had him sized up
to no good at all and he doesn't
try anything there is no real excuse
for that kind of family